Diabetes News Hound

Cory Conacher, a junior winger with Canisius, is a Hobey Baker Award candidate, which is given each year to the top NCAA’s top men’s ice hockey player. He is also a Type 1 diabetic (more…)

Austin Freeman, the Georgetown Hoyas college basketball star who was diagnosed with diabetes last week, returned to help him team knock off Cincinnati 74-47 in the club’s regular season finale (more…)

The Georgetown Hoyas’ leading scorer, junior Austin Freeman has been diagnosed with diabetes (more…)

The Georgia Senate has passed a resolution recognizing NBA Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins as Georgia’s Diabetes Ambassador (more…)

American Idol top 20 contestant Crystal Bowersox, 24, was rushed to the hospital reportedly from complications from her Type 1 diabetes (more…)

Krispy Kreme sponsored its second Krispy Kreme Challenge and donated the proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (more…)

Before the Olympics many people held out hope that Kris Freeman, who had an outside chance at landing a medal at the Games, would rise to the top of his sport and show the world what an athlete with Type 1 diabetes is capable of (more…)

Kris Freeman, who is one of the premier athletes in the world with Type 1 diabetes, has had a tough Olympics so far. The cross country skier, who was the best hope for the U.S. to win a medal in the discipline in decades, finished 59^th in his first race last Monday and 45^th in his second race on Saturday (more…)